Introduction
book 1: The bells of Gion Monastery ; Night attack at Courtiers' Hall ; The sea bass ; Page-boy cuts ; Kiyomori's flowering fortunes ; Giō
book 2: The admonition ; Signal fires ; The death of the senior counselor ; Yasuyori's prayer
book 3: The pardon ; The foot-drumming ; Ariō ; The death of Shunkan
book 4: The battle at the bridge
book 5: The burning of Nara
book 6: The death of Kiyomori
book 7: Sanemori ; Tadanori leaves the capital ; The flight from Fukuhara
book 8 [summary]
book 9: The death of Lord Kiso ; The old horse ; The attack from the cliff ; The death of Tadanori ; The capture of Shigehira ; The death of Atsumori
book 10: Regarding the precepts ; Senju-no-mae ; Yokobue ; Koremori becomes a monk ; Koremori drowns himself
book 11: The death of Tsuginobu ; Nasu no Yoichi ; The lost bow ; The cockfights and the battle of Dan-no-ura ; Far-flying arrows ; The drowning of the former emperor
book 12: The execution of Rokudai
The initiates' book: The imperial lady becomes a nun ; The move to Ōhara ; The retired emperor visits Ōhara ; The six paths of existence ; The death of the imperial lady
Glossary of characters.